Today's Electronics News...

Welcome to today's edition of the ElectronicSpecifier newsletter bringing you a round-up of all the top products featured on the site. Amongst today's stories are industry news that Cherry Electrical Products will now be known as ZF Electronics and details of a WiMAX with adaptive beamforming video demo by Fujitsu at Mobile World Congress 2009.

Dave Collins
Editor

Top Stories
congatec AG announces record results for 2008
Cherry becomes ZF
Fujitsu to Demonstrate WiMAX with Adaptive Beamforming at Mobile World Congress 2009
Design
Display Interfacing Workshop for Design Engineers
picoChip launches eight-user HSPA femtocell reference design
Evaluation modules ease integration and development of USB 2.0 High Speed interfaces [Datasheet]
Power IC’s
4A Multi-Cell, Multi-Chemistry Battery Charger Controller from Linear Technology [Datasheet]
Low-Cost, DC-DC Synchronous Controller from Maxim [Datasheet]
NEC announces HSON-8 package for PowerMOSFETs in automotive applications
Passive Components
Hall-effect switches and latches from Allegro [Datasheet]
Murata reduces the size of its AMR magnetic switches
Cabinet Racks and Enclosure
19in Plug-in units from Schroff feature slide-in cover plates for quicker assembly
Cables and Connecting
SMT Connector Reaches New Height [Datasheet]
Omnetics launches Mil/Aero quality latching nano connector
ITT launches APD 1, 7 and 51-way connector range
Wireless and Portable
ReVerb Networks’ Digital Integrated Antenna Arrays enabled by AxisNT platform
Alpha Micro claims Smallest GPRS SMT module from SAGEM
Fujitsu Announces WiMAX Baseband Device for Mobile PCs